The aim of this research was to establish what black adults' perceptions are of factors that contribute to healthy family functioning. Qualitative research was conducted. Random sampling was used to obtain eighteen black participants between the ages of 20 and 50. These participants responded in writing to the following open ended question: "What factors do you think contribute to healthy family functioning?" Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with the eight participants who presented with the richest data. Analysis of the data yielded 10 prevalent themes and eleven other themes. The 10 prevalent themes were: respect, love, communication, family time/spending time together, trust, understanding, discipline, availability for each other, boundaries and religion. The other eleven themes were: personal space, responsibility, hierarchy, family rules, conflict handling, morality, roles, maturity, intelligence, culture and forgiveness. The above mentioned 21 themes were grouped in seven broad categories, namely communication, conflict handling, affectionate involvement, family rules, boundaries, religion and other dimensions. All these themes were compared to existing research results. It appeared that themes of this study correspond with many dimensions of family functioning as indicated by family therapy models and existing research. Participants also indicated new dimensions not mentioned by the existing literature. Recommendations were made concerning future research. / Thesis (M.A. (Clinical Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2005.

The aim of this research was to establish what black adults' perceptions are of factors that contribute to healthy family functioning. Qualitative research was conducted. Random sampling was used to obtain eighteen black participants between the ages of 20 and 50. These participants responded in writing to the following open ended question: "What factors do you think contribute to healthy family functioning?" Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with the eight participants who presented with the richest data. Analysis of the data yielded 10 prevalent themes and eleven other themes. The 10 prevalent themes were: respect, love, communication, family time/spending time together, trust, understanding, discipline, availability for each other, boundaries and religion. The other eleven themes were: personal space, responsibility, hierarchy, family rules, conflict handling, morality, roles, maturity, intelligence, culture and forgiveness. The above mentioned 21 themes were grouped in seven broad categories, namely communication, conflict handling, affectionate involvement, family rules, boundaries, religion and other dimensions. All these themes were compared to existing research results. It appeared that themes of this study correspond with many dimensions of family functioning as indicated by family therapy models and existing research. Participants also indicated new dimensions not mentioned by the existing literature. Recommendations were made concerning future research. / Thesis (M.A. (Clinical Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2005.

I komplex analys finns det ett antal olika konvergenser varav vi tittar närmare på några här. Bland annat hur likformig konvergens medför punktvis konvergens men att det omvända ej gäller. Vi tittar också på vad de har för samband med lokal likformig konvergens och normal konvergens dvs. likformig konvergens på kompakta delmängder. Slutligen kommer vi att se på vad som gäller för familjer och kommer då in på lokalt begränsad, ekvikontinuitet, Arzela/Ascoli, Montels och Runges satser. Vi kommer här även se exempel på hur stort fel det egentligen kan bli för punktvisa konvergenta följder. De får normalt inte en gränsfunktion som är analytisk men vi ser både i Exempel 3.19 och Korollarium 3.23 att dessa ger resultat som är analytiska nästan överallt. / This report will describe four different types of convergence. The types described are pointwise, local uniformly, uniformly and normal convergence. The different convergences are explored in a way of how they relate to each other. Finally this report will also investigate how this applies to normal families and the theories of Arzela/Ascoli, Montel and Runge. We will here see examples of how wrong it really can go for pointwise convergent sequences. They do usually not have a limit that is analytic but from both Example 3.19 and Corollary 3.23 we will see that they give functions that in fact are analytic almost everywhere.